entrepreneurial leadership - some thoughts and tips
DESCRIPTION
A presentation to help you introduce some entrepreneurial thinking into your senior management team. Suitable for public sector organisations or stale & complex corporates who want to be more agile in how they do things. Suitable for old school leaders or prospective leaders. Suitable for 3rd sector teams rolling out ambitious community projects.TRANSCRIPT
Thoughts about entrepreneurial leadershipLondon Borough of Lambeth
12 February 2014
A bit about Learning Pool …
• Started life as an IDeA innovation project• Became a private company in 2006• Has over 400 public sector customers (including Lambeth)• Provides an e-learning platform and content services • Now employs 65 people across the UK & Ireland• Has built the UK’s largest public sector community with 1m
people
A bit about me …
• Started my career in local government• Was person number 5 in a tiny team that’s now O2• Spent 10 years in CIPFA’s commercial subsidiary• Left to become a Silicon Valley dotcommer• Became an entrepreneur later in life than most• Have founded 4 startups of my own … so far!
Have a vision and communicate it
Be able to compartmentalise
Resilience is key
Make decisions quickly
Urgency and impatience have their place
It’s easier to stamp on a seedling
Focus … and focus on the right things
Be hungry like a wolf
Remember your people are your best asset
No-one knows what’s going to happen next
Final thought …
“You have to be optimistic to be an entrepreneur”
What’s next for me
• Heading up a social innovation project for vInspired• Building my non executive portfolio• Balancing my paid and pro bono work for maximum job
satisfaction• Will more than likely start another business
• Email address [email protected]• Read my blog at www.kickingassets.co.uk
• Connect with me on Twitter at @MMaryMcKenna